Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-10
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Wrecked on Virginia Beach.
The German ship Elizabeth went ashore
Saturday morning off Virginia Beach, lenv-
ing rot one solitary soul OF her large crew
alive. and five Of the life saving crew st that
station lost their lives in an attempt 10 res
cue those on board The ship. The acene
of the disaster is eix miles south OF the Vir-
ginia Beach Hotel. Owing 10 tins heavy,
binding snowstorm prevailing, and the
wind blowing at toe rate of twenty miles
an hour from the northeast, it was near sun.
rise before the brave iifesavng station men
could begin operations. The seas were roll
! ing in with tremendous force, anG NUM-
ber OF persons on the shore, with the aid of
glasses, saw their relatives and friands, who
were trying to save the poor German sail
ors. sink with them Those on tho beach
were powerless TO lend the drowning men 8
| helping hand but nothing could nc done
but wait until some tiGings of the lost were
washed up from the deep sea, and sad I'D
| iugs they were. OF twenty-five souls IeaV.
ng the ship only two noble felIows-Johr
| Etheredge and Francis Tedford, OF Station
| No. 4-reaehed the shore alive. Both men
were fortunately discovered in time. They
were frozen stiff, and Ethercdge w&s badly
wounded. The injuries TO the lat
ter are such that ne may add an
other victim to the list OF lost. The Eve
life station men who lost their lives
were respected citizens CT the neighborhood.
hard-working, all married, and having fami-
lies,o whom many mouths were dependent
for daily bread, as they had no other means
| of support than their salaries. Their fami.
lies will be deprived OF support. Captain
Belanga leaves wife John w. Land, a
wife. They had been married only short
time. Joseph Spratley, a wife and large
family, and J. e. Beange, wife and two
| children. Of the crew Of the wrecked YES
sci no names can be learned as yet The
first reports stated that there we're fifteen
sailors on the ship, who lett en- the life
boats that capsized. Etheridge and Ted
| ford, the Two life.saving men who reached
! the shore, upon recovering CONSCIOUSNESS,
stated that the crew numbered twenty
! two. The bodies OF the five men Of the life
saving crew and four of the ships crew,
1 which were recovered Saturday, were life
preservers, and three mors Of the ships
crew without life. preserVers we're picked up
| lower down the coast yesterday morning.
a body, which mas been identified SIS
that OF the captSin, is among those
recovered On his peTaon vas photo
graph marked Captain z. Halberstadt
and letters addressed TO Henry Kaulkmaun
and several bills from Joseph Lamke & Co.,
Bremerhaven. Yesterday evening the
masts OF the ship were still standing, though
the sea was breaking over her violently.
Not word was spoken between the ships
crew and the life'saviug men when they
| boarded ber in their desperate attempt at
! rescue, and the cause of the wreck can
never be positively known, although it IS
supposed that III attempting 10 make the
Capes of Virginia under reefed sails suffi-
| cient allowance wac not made for the strong
currents The beach where the wreck &C.
CURED is, and always has been. considered
bad one, the shore making out TO consit-
! able distance, and "a current making ip, thus
adding to the bad name it bears With ees-
men, This makes the thirtl wreck that has
taken place in the vicinity which has been
attended with considerable loss OF life-the
| United States sloop of-wag Huron OF the
night of November %, 1877. by which The
lives of 10 Of her officers and crew were
| lost, and al the same time Eve Of the crew
| of the Baker Wrecsing Com pany's Steamers,
III UTyluS 10 TSaCi IlS StSsS AiOLiA VIC SNO'ALt
er. The second wreck was that of the
steamship Metropolis, which went ashore
On January 81, 1878, by which nearly 200
lives were lost, the vessel hayiDg on board
large number of immigrants from Phila-
dephia for Brazil.
The ship Elizabeth was built nj Boston in
1855, and was christened the Empress. She
was rebuilt in New York in August, 1882,
and changed hands, and was rechristened
the Elizabeth, with Capt. Halberstadt in
command She was double decked, full
rugged, of ,292 tons register 19S feet long,
3S beam, % depth of hold. She left Ham
I burg Nov. 10, and was spoken the 10Th OF
that month near Bishop Rock, and was
bound for Baltimore. It is supposed that
she wasloaded with keinit and empty oil bar
rele, which belief is strengthened by the
| fact that several empty barrels have hoated
ashore. The Baker wrecking steamer Peed,
while out in search OF q schooner ashore,
saw the Elizabeth early on SATURDAY. morn
ing, and tried to get near her TO offer IS
sistance, but could not approach nearer
/ than quarter of mile, owing to the heavy
seas. The Peed returned to Norfolk Satur-
day night, and reported that the decks Of
! the Elizabeth are under water, one anchor
is out, and the foresail and maintopsaii
loose, but not set. Another body was
washed up yesterday evening, making six
of the ships crew recovered.
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